State of Cyan 2026

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Cyan's 2025–2026 recap

The Riven remake received multiple award nominations, while Myst gained a free Rime expansion containing new material.
Layoffs made 2025 a difficult year, but the smaller remaining team continued developing games and supporting its catalog.
Legacy updates added Steam Deck support to Myst Masterpiece Edition, classic Riven, and Myst III: Exile.
Firmament launched on PlayStation in July 2025, the Myst trilogy ebooks arrived, and campaign fulfillment was completed.
Myst and Riven reached consoles, accompanied by numerous patches for both remakes, Firmament, and legacy titles.

The original 2005 Abduction was conceived as a stylized shooter before evolving into lighter concepts about an abducted dog and an intergalactic game show.
Cyan designed a whimsical Wii disc-golf game around 2006 and later built a VR prototype, but neither version progressed.
Lyft was an ambitious action-adventure about flying between enormous floating islands, upgrading vehicles, and exploring with a robot companion.
Lattice explored branching narratives in which players could manipulate variables and scrub through time to alter events and solve puzzles.
Project Goldfish is a long-running Myst spin-off and love letter to Uru and the D'ni Cavern; it is not in full production but remains alive as a future possibility.
A back-burner mapping project is reconstructing the entire D'ni Cavern at one-to-one scale in Unreal, though Cyan explicitly says it is not an Uru remake.

Dark Path was a short prototype combining pressured puzzle-solving with a runaway D'ni tunneling machine and escape-room pacing.
Who D'ni It tested a visual-novel murder mystery concept described as Phoenix Wright crossed with Myst.
Project Anglerfish was a darker pre-Fall D'ni thriller about being trapped with a dangerous person and confronting the consequences of altering Ages.
Cyan spent four months creating a polished Anglerfish prototype and publisher trailer, but financing difficulties prevented production; the studio hopes to revisit it.

Project Mudfish is Cyan's current full-time project: an early-development, non-VR first-person Myst puzzle game with denser spaces, richer interactions, and more tactile exploration.
New deluxe hardcover editions of all three Myst novels are planned, with new covers and more information expected in the fall.
Boxed editions of the Myst and Riven remakes are coming to PS5, Xbox, and PC; console editions will include discs, while PC will contain a digital code.
Cyan plans to celebrate its 40th anniversary with Mysterium in Spokane, a possible cultural exhibition, and an appearance by Rand Miller.

The unfinished 1999 Book of Marrim manuscript no longer matches later Myst lore, so that version is considered a dead end and any future treatment would require starting over.
Cyan has not closed the door on VR, but its current projects prioritize flat-screen design for greater focus and flexibility.
Updating Obduction for more platforms would require a difficult engine upgrade from an old Unreal Engine 4 version, so future updates remain undecided.
Cyan is developing additional D'ni lore and language material but is not opening the language to community development while that internal work continues.

Play the free Rime update for the Myst remake if you have not already done so.
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Watch for further details about the deluxe Myst novels, boxed game editions, and the 40th-anniversary Mysterium.